I was considering the hard money lender route but got slightly overwhelmed because of the different options, rates and not knowing how to properly vet them.

Knowing how to use many different strategies allows the REI to take advantage of markets/properties that are available, but that other REI's can't make work. 

Fairfax county virginia is very different than Montgomery county maryland even though they are right next door to each other and most do business in both. 

Within the SAME area we have 3 totally different markets.- Space Coast Beaches - Condos - Buyer's market- Space Coast Beaches - SFHs - Neutral market- Viera / Suntree < $800k - SFHs - Seller's marketI thought this was interesting how drastic the difference can be within the same geographic area. 

Can we extract our data if down the line we decide to go with a different CRM.2.

Others are exploring different real estate asset classes all together.Notice in that chart in the link above, today's trend isn't too different from how things looked basically until 2010.

Below is a quick summary of different borrower types, so you can see where you might fit in. 1.

I am baffled why others try to argue it's different, maybe we just value our time and skill differently than they there's.

“Notes” are such a BIG field, that I’ve found it more efficient, effective and profitable to target specific “arena” of notes at different times in different economic environments.  

I am looking forward to meeting people from different aspects of the Real Estate Investing world.